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The Ax Fight

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  • 1975
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The Ax Fight
  • Original Title: The Ax Fight

The Ax Fight (1975) is an ethnographic film by anthropologist and filmmaker Tim Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon about a conflict in a Yanomami village called Mishimishimabowei-teri, in southern Venezuela. It is best known as an iconic and idiosyncratic ethnographic film about the Yanomamo and is frequently shown in classroom settings.

The Ax Fight
  • Country: Venezuela
  • Original Title: The Ax Fight

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